WHAT HAPPENS IF THE DEAL FALLS APART?

“It makes sense to me that our holding up agreements that we have signed, unless there’s a material breach, would have an impact on others’ willingness to sign agreements.”

— Gen. Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

United States Senate, Transcript, Sep. 26, 2017

“This agreement represents the best chance to make sure Iran never obtains a weapon and the best chance for Congress to support American diplomacy — without taking any options off the table for this or future presidents.”

Without

the deal

unprecedented access and information about Iran's nuclear activities would be lost

“The JCPOA is a substantial gain for verification, because the combination of the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement, Additional Protocol and additional transparency measures represents the most robust verification system in existence anywhere in the world.”

— Yukiya Amano, IAEA Director General

In 2017

3,000

calendar days/year spent by IAEA inspectors at multiple Iranian sites

2,000+

tamper-proof seals installed on nuclear material and equipment

1.2M

documents collected/month

IAEA visits since Jan. 17, 2016

190

buildings

60

short notice

As noted in a speech by IAEA Dir. Gen. Yukiya Amano, Mar. 5, 2018

89%

increase in facility surveillance cameras as of 2017

152%

“Our inspectors are on the ground 24/7. We also monitor Iran’s nuclear facilities and centrifuge manufacturing and testing locations. … We have regular access to more locations under the Additional Protocol, which has also provided the agency with more information about Iran’s nuclear programme.”

— Yukiya Amano, IAEA Director General

With the deal

The United States can confront Iran's dangerous regional actions:

Supporting Hezbollah and terrorist proxy groups

Providing arms, funding and personnel to the Assad regime in Syria and rebels in Yemen

Violating human rights

Pursuing ballistic missile development, in defiance of UN resolutions

The United States brought the world together to prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb, and it must meet its commitments or risk isolation from allies and partners, including the United Kingdom, Germany and France. As the U.S. meets its obligations under the deal, the world must ensure that Iran does too, with vigorous enforcement and verification.

“Without an agreement, Iran will be free to act as it wishes, whereas the sanctions regime against it will crumble in any case… if the nuclear issue is of cardinal existential importance, what is the point of cancelling an agreement that distances Iran from the bomb?”

— Efraim Halevy, former Director of the Mossad, former head of the Israeli National Security Council

The Iran Deal is

essential to

global security

“I guess my one question [has been], if we tear the deal up, then what? And I haven’t been able to answer that question.”

“Verification of this agreement is airtight. Iran could, at some time in the future, reject the agreement and push to acquire a nuclear weapon. We would have more warning — far more warning — than if we didn’t have such an agreement.”

“[The Iran deal] is an agreement that belongs to the entire international community and that the Europeans are determined to preserve because its full and strict implementation is key to our own security.”

— Federica Mogherini, high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy